Description

This 1937 Deluxe Edition of Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote is Volume 14 of the The Harvard Classics series, published by P.F. Collier & Son Corporation in New York.

It Contains Part 1 of Don Quixote of the Mancha (Part 2 was not included in this series) using the classic translation by Thomas Shelton. The novel is considered a founding work of Western literature and the first modern novel. It is a satire of chivalric romances and literary conventions of the time.

The plot revolves around the adventures of a member of the lowest nobility, a hidalgo from La Mancha named Alonso Quijano, who reads so many chivalric romances that he decides to become a knight-errant to revive chivalry and serve his nation, under the name Don Quixote de la Mancha. He recruits as his squire a simple farm labourer, Sancho Panza, who brings an earthy wit to Don Quixote’s lofty rhetoric. In the first part of the book, Don Quixote does not see the world for what it is and prefers to imagine that he is living out a knightly story meant for the annals of all time.